An Act to make provision for the framing of a Provident
Fund Scheme ' (a Family Pension Scheme,} 2\a Deposit-Linked
Insurance Scheme/ and a Bonus Scheme for persons employed in
coal mines.

It is hereby enacted as follows
:

Short title and extent.—4[(1) This Act may be called
the Coal Mines Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions
Act. 1948.) 5[(2) It extends to the whole of India 6| *
* *]).

Interpretation.—In this Act, unless there is anything
repugnant in the subject or context—

9(a) "bonus" means any sum of money payable to an 7[employee]
under the Coal Mines Bonus Scheme framed under this Act;
8[(aa) "coal" includes lignite;]

9(b) "coal mine" means any excavation where any operation
for the purpose of searching for or obtaining coal has been
or is being carried on. and includes—

All boring and bore holes;

All shafts, in or adjacent to and belonging to a coal
mine, where in the course of being sunk or not;

All levels and inclined planes in the course of being
driven ;

any open cast working or quarry, that is to say, an excavation
where any operation for the purpose of searching for or
obtaining coal has been or is beingvcarried on, not being
a shaft or an excavation which extends below superjacent
ground;

All conveyors or aerial rope-ways provided for the bringing
into or removal from a coal mine of coal or other articles
or for the removal of refuse therefrom;

All adits, levels, planes, machinery, works, railways,
tramways and sidings in or adjacent to and belonging to
a coal mine ;

All workshops situated within the precincts of a coal
mine and under the same management and used for purposes,
connected with that coal mine or a number of coal mines
under the same management;

Any office of a coal mine;

All power stations for supplying electricity for the purpose
of working the coal mine or a number of coal mines under
the same management;

Any premises for the time being used for depositing refuse
from a coal mine, or in which any operation in connection
with such refuse is being carried on being premises exclusively
occupied by the employer of the coal mine;

All hospitals and canteens maintained for the benefit
of the employees of a coal mine or a number of coal mines
under the same management;